Dana Downie was interested in her friend's lives on Iowa family farms. So, she started photographing her friends in agricultural settings. That’s where it all began. Later, after graduating from college, she followed her interest in agriculture as a staff photographer for the Des Moines, Iowa Register, covering news and the industrial/business side of agriculture.

As a freelancer, between corporate agricultural assignments, she continued to both photograph and write about farm families around the globe for the John Deere Furrow Magazine series, "Farm Families of the World”.

Using high resolution Nikon digital cameras and lighting equipment, she is portable and able to shoot both interior and exterior locations in a photojournalism style. A few of her clients are Chevron Corporation, John Deere & Co., Blue Diamond Growers, FMC Corporation, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Rohm and Haas/Dow Chemical and Valmont Industries.

Dana is based in Fremont, California and resides with her husband John. She specializes in photographing Central Valley and West Coast agriculture and horticulture. You may see more of her work at www.danadownie.com/ag.